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Possibly this is the wrong place to ask, but as I read the story and the associate material, I wonder if the Clancy Earth (\
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Possibly this is the wrong place to ask, but as I read the story and the associate material, I wonder if the Clancy Earth (\\\"[=CEarth=]\\\") is greatly different from our own.
It seems almost to be Mary Sue Earth, at least in comparison with our own. I see extended digressions about how much better governed it is than most of the Inner Sphere, how much political freedom [=CEarth=] people enjoy, and on and on.
It seems to me that these comparisons are only valid if the First World is held to be the whole world. Much is made of how backward and ill-governed Antallos is. It is a patchwork of corrupt failed states and regions governed by murderous warlords and bandit chieftains, \\\"peasants ruled by brigands.\\\" Possibly [=CEarth=] is different. In our own world it is not difficult to find regions equally unfortunate. If the reader is supposed to be horrified at the existence of the institution of chattel slavery in places like Antallos, well, maybe Clancy\\\'s novels depict a different world, but here, it still exists in the Third World.
A representative of the BT \\\"Inner Sphere\\\" might argue that Antallos is but a single isolated backwater world, one out of many thousands, and that the \\\"Inner Sphere\\\" boasts wealthy worlds with a high culture. As I read, I wonder if we are being built up to an epic TheReasonYouSuckSpeech delivered by Jack Ryan to the assembled leaders of the Inner Sphere. Unless [=CEarth=] is a very different place indeed from our own, one imagines that conditions most any randomly chosen Third World nation would make any such speech ironic at best. One imagines the ambassador from the Draconis Combine holding up a bundle of big glossy photographs from Darfur or Rwanda and saying \\\"Oh, please. Clean up your own planet before you lecture us.\\\"
This is just my impression after reflecting, and is worth, of course, what you paid for it.
It seems almost to be Mary Sue Earth, at least in comparison with our own. I see extended digressions about how much better governed it is than most of the Inner Sphere, how much political freedom [=CEarth=] people enjoy, and on and on.
It seems to me that these comparisons are only valid if the First World is held to be the whole world. Much is made of how backward and ill-governed Antallos is. It is a patchwork of corrupt failed states and regions governed by murderous warlords and bandit chieftains, \\\"peasants ruled by brigands.\\\" Possibly [=CEarth=] is different. In our own world it is not difficult to find regions equally unfortunate. If the reader is supposed to be horrified at the existence of the institution of chattel slavery in places like Antallos, well, maybe Clancy\\\'s novels depict a different world, but here, it still exists in the Third World.
A representative of the BT \\\"Inner Sphere\\\" might argue that Antallos is but a single isolated backwater world, one out of many thousands, and that the \\\"Inner Sphere\\\" boasts wealthy worlds with a high culture. As I read, I wonder if we are being built up to an epic TheReasonYouSuckSpeech delivered by Jack Ryan to the assembled leaders of the Inner Sphere. Unless [=CEarth=] is a very different place indeed from our own, one imagines that conditions most any randomly chosen Third World nation would make any such speech ironic at best. One imagines the ambassador from the Draconis Combine holding up a bundle of big glossy photographs from Darfur or Rwanda and saying \\\"Oh, please. Clean up your own planet before you lecture us.\\\"
This is just my impression after reflecting, and is worth, of course, what you paid for it.
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Possibly this is the wrong place to ask, but as I read the story and the associate material, I wonder if the Clancy Earth (\
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Possibly this is the wrong place to ask, but as I read the story and the associate material, I wonder if the Clancy Earth (\\\"[=CEarth=]\\\") is greatly different from our own.
It seems almost to be Mary Sue Earth, at least in comparison with our own. I see extended digressions about how much better governed it is than most of the Inner Sphere, how much political freedom [=CEarth=] people enjoy, and on and on.
It seems to me that these comparisons are only valid if the First World is held to be the whole world. Much is made of how backward and ill-governed Antallos is. It is a patchwork of corrupt failed states and regions governed by murderous warlords and bandit chieftains, \\\"peasants ruled by brigands.\\\" Possibly [=CEarth=] is different. In our own world it is not difficult to find regions equally unfortunate.
A representative of the BT \\\"Inner Sphere\\\" might argue that Antallos is but a single isolated backwater world, one out of many thousands, and that the \\\"Inner Sphere\\\" boasts wealthy worlds with a high culture. As I read, I wonder if we are being built up to an epic TheReasonYouSuckSpeech delivered by Jack Ryan to the assembled leaders of the Inner Sphere. Unless [=CEarth=] is a very different place indeed from our own, one imagines that conditions most any randomly chosen Third World nation would make any such speech ironic at best.
This is just my impression after reflecting, and is worth, of course, what you paid for it.
It seems almost to be Mary Sue Earth, at least in comparison with our own. I see extended digressions about how much better governed it is than most of the Inner Sphere, how much political freedom [=CEarth=] people enjoy, and on and on.
It seems to me that these comparisons are only valid if the First World is held to be the whole world. Much is made of how backward and ill-governed Antallos is. It is a patchwork of corrupt failed states and regions governed by murderous warlords and bandit chieftains, \\\"peasants ruled by brigands.\\\" Possibly [=CEarth=] is different. In our own world it is not difficult to find regions equally unfortunate.
A representative of the BT \\\"Inner Sphere\\\" might argue that Antallos is but a single isolated backwater world, one out of many thousands, and that the \\\"Inner Sphere\\\" boasts wealthy worlds with a high culture. As I read, I wonder if we are being built up to an epic TheReasonYouSuckSpeech delivered by Jack Ryan to the assembled leaders of the Inner Sphere. Unless [=CEarth=] is a very different place indeed from our own, one imagines that conditions most any randomly chosen Third World nation would make any such speech ironic at best.
This is just my impression after reflecting, and is worth, of course, what you paid for it.
